What the hell is going on

I think the title of this post says it all. I've had a fair bit on my plate recently and if you copy and paste my blogging effort into my dieting effort you come up with the same result. Pathetic! But despite the dismal failure that has been the last few months I think I can turn it all around.

I'm back in Brisbane after a few weeks away in Canberra and a weekend of silliness in Melbourne (Richmond were the SILLIEST of all), and I'm ready to step it up and rediscover my early season weight-loss form. Because of the scale issues I experienced while away, I have jumped on the home ground scales today and updated the running (or rising as the case may be) tally. As you will see it doesn't make pretty reading.

I have a vague memory of deciding I would be under 100kg by June 30. Well it seems I didn't quite get there. In fact I achieved the opposite result. It seems the four odd kilos I needed to lose I actually managed to find, now leaving me with a fairly major hurdle to jump. The most disappointing thing is that I have now fallen behind my one kilo a week aim for the year. As things stand today, I've now lost 24kg in 26 weeks which on the surface sounds good but considering I'd lost that weight over 2 months ago it's a real shame to have let it slip away.

But onward and upward as they say and there is no point like the present to make a positive change. I have no more trips away and no heavy uni commitments for the next four weeks so I'm resetting the target of 100kg for the end of July. I know it can be done and I've deliberately set a challenging target to help me find the discipline I've been lacking in recent months.

It begins today with a 40km ride on the bike and a firm commitment to healthy eating. I've become pretty slack of recent months and certainly have been drinking too much grog. So at the very least, for the month of July, there'll be no grog during the week and a serious love affair with fruit and veg and with any luck I can convince the body again that I'm back on the straight and narrow. I'm even going to chuck in a low carb week (and I do love my carbs) to try to restart the metabolism and get things moving in the right direction.

I've enjoyed my only two commitment free days for my entire Uni break and tomorrow its back to the grind of free work and networking in the grand plan to get a real job. I'm doing a short term 1 day a fortnight gig with the Queensland Bulls teaching media skills to emerging players. Myself and 4 other journo students will simulate the media conditions (Fox Sports coverage) during the KFC Big Bash. We will do TV interviews with players on the field and the bench during a Twenty20 game and ask difficult questions to them after they've been dismissed. It's designed to get them used to the invasion of privacy and personal space that top level sportsmen deal with on a day to day basis. Next week I'm working in news at channel Nine. After doing a week with Ten recently and heading to the ABC at the end of the month, the opportunity at Nine will help me become more widely known in Brisbane TV News circles. With any luck one of these things will lead to part time work opportunities and more.

In the next day or two I'll do a Mid-year review of the Fat Bastard Diary and will set the agenda for the remaining six months. I'm as determined today as I was on January 1 to achieve my goal of 81kg so I better get my act into gear because there's 28kg to go.

Until then,

P